...No?
e: But in all seriousness, why should parties be blamed for "nationalizing" federal elections which clearly have national implications? You treat concerns over whether said candidate will vote for Schumer or McConnell as Majority Leader as some triviality not worth paying much attention to, which is honestly perplexing. If anything, more voters should be reminded of the consequences their vote in a "local" Senate race will have on a national stage, especially when the candidate they’re sending to the Senate will almost certainly stay there for at least six years.
Do you want people to base their vote on actual issues or a politician's haircut or lobster-eating skills?
The system worked much bette when we had relatively liberal republicans from the north east represent their states in the senate despite most of the region being democratic since 1932 and the south being represented by conservative Democrats in the south and interior west which prevailed in some form of the other till 2010 despite the south being republican since 1980
